1966.104: The Penates Appearing to Aeneas in His Dream

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1966.104

People

Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish (1573 - 1647)

Title

The Penates Appearing to Aeneas in His Dream

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296475

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid account book paper with vertical ruled lines hand-drawn in pink wash on recto and verso, framing line in brown ink and graphite

Dimensions

19 x 16.4 cm (7 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower right, brown ink: HG [in ligature]
• inscription: lower center, brown ink: [extensive inscription]
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 40 [encircled] } IV [in a square] 55.
• inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: Hendrick Goltzius / 1558-1617 / Haarlem
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: de M
• watermark: former mount, now removed and in conservation file: prancing unicorn

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Walter Schatzki, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund

Accession Year

1966

Object Number

1966.104

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Vassar College Art Gallery, Dutch Mannerism: Apogee and Epilogue, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1970), cat. no. 55a, pp. 45-46, repr. pl. 16, fig. 55a (as Hendrick Goltzius)

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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